Genealogy program for Mandriva? - Mandriva

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Looking for a genealogy program for Mandriva (2007).
Having Googled, I've seen a reference to a port of Gramps to Mandriva, but
MCC doesn't seem to know about it.
Also looked at ...

Genealogy program for Mandriva?

Having Googled, I've seen a reference to a port of Gramps to Mandriva, but
MCC doesn't seem to know about it.

Also looked at the Gramps site, which said that - with Mandriva - one just
did "urpmi gramps", but the response when I tried that was:

"No package named gramps"

(and I have 'contrib' as a source in urpmi setup).

Ideas welcome!

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:31:45 +0100, Maurice Batey wrote:
>
> Also looked at the Gramps site, which said that - with Mandriva - one just
> did "urpmi gramps", but the response when I tried that was:
>
> "No package named gramps"
>
> (and I have 'contrib' as a source in urpmi setup).

Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:31:45 +0100, Maurice Batey wrote:
> (Re-posted, as original sems to havev gone astray...)
>
> Looking for a genealogy program for Mandriva (2007).
>
> Having Googled, I've seen a reference to a port of Gramps to Mandriva,
> but MCC doesn't seem to know about it.
>
> Also looked at the Gramps site, which said that - with Mandriva - one
> just did "urpmi gramps", but the response when I tried that was:
>
> "No package named gramps"
>
> (and I have 'contrib' as a source in urpmi setup).
>
> Ideas welcome!

Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On 2007-06-30, Maurice Batey wrote:
> (Re-posted, as original sems to havev gone astray...)
>
> Looking for a genealogy program for Mandriva (2007).
>
> Having Googled, I've seen a reference to a port of Gramps to Mandriva, but
> MCC doesn't seem to know about it.
>
> Also looked at the Gramps site, which said that - with Mandriva - one just
> did "urpmi gramps", but the response when I tried that was:
>
> "No package named gramps"
>
> (and I have 'contrib' as a source in urpmi setup).
>
> Ideas welcome!

on the urpmi mirror I use (use the 2007.0 or 2007.1 version depending on
which version of Mandriva you are using).

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On 2007-06-30, Maurice Batey wrote:
> (Re-posted, as original sems to havev gone astray...)
>
> Looking for a genealogy program for Mandriva (2007).
>
> Having Googled, I've seen a reference to a port of Gramps to Mandriva, but
> MCC doesn't seem to know about it.
>
> Also looked at the Gramps site, which said that - with Mandriva - one just
> did "urpmi gramps", but the response when I tried that was:
>
> "No package named gramps"
>
> (and I have 'contrib' as a source in urpmi setup).
>
> Ideas welcome!

As other posters have said, the Gramps binary package for
Mandriva should be in the contrib branch. I got mine from
there for 2007.0. If you have difficulty finding it, I'd be
happy to help you get a copy.

Gramps is a good package. If by some chance you have some
reason to prefer PAF (Personal Ancestral File), it runs
quite well under WINE, as the AppDB page tries to describe.

Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

Maurice Batey wrote:
> (Re-posted, as original sems to havev gone astray...)
>
> Looking for a genealogy program for Mandriva (2007).
> Having Googled, I've seen a reference to a port of Gramps to Mandriva, but
> MCC doesn't seem to know about it.
> Also looked at the Gramps site, which said that - with Mandriva - one just
> did "urpmi gramps", but the response when I tried that was:
> "No package named gramps"
>
> (and I have 'contrib' as a source in urpmi setup).
>
> Ideas welcome!
>
[root@jb zcensuslists]# urpmi --no-install grampsftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/ma...ficial/2007.1/
x86_64/media/contrib/release/gramps-2.2.6-1mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm
/* The above was all one long line, of course */

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:38:28 +0000, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
> If by some chance you have some reason to
> prefer PAF (Personal Ancestral File), it runs quite well under WINE,

I used to use PAF many years ago, when it was distributed on floppies!

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

Maurice Batey a écrit :
> (Re-posted, as original sems to havev gone astray...)
>
> Looking for a genealogy program for Mandriva (2007).
>
> Having Googled, I've seen a reference to a port of Gramps to Mandriva, but
> MCC doesn't seem to know about it.
>
> Also looked at the Gramps site, which said that - with Mandriva - one just
> did "urpmi gramps", but the response when I tried that was:
>
> "No package named gramps"
>
> (and I have 'contrib' as a source in urpmi setup).
>
> Ideas welcome!
>
If you are adept at installing on a server you may also want to look at
TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding) which is an awesome
programme.

Thanks, Jim. The problem is that I don't have broadband.
(A few weeks ago it took 7 hours on a dial-up connection to set up
my urpmi system, so I'm disappointed it can't find gramps.)

When you say "urpmi.removemedia -a .....Add new sources", how big an
operation is that?
(urpmi is still new-fangled for me since moving to Mandriva
(2007.0)
earlier this year, so the significance of those op's eludes me.)

(Actually, my MCC's "Select from where software pacakes are d/l..."
leads on to 'Media Manager', which doesn't show "Add new sources"
option.sp can't see what you mean by "Add new sources"...)

Guess the simplest thing to do would be to download the RPM separately
from somewhere, if I could only figure out how to navigate Firefox to
it.

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On 2007-07-02, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:38:56 +0000, Jim Beard wrote:
>
>> Looks like you need to update your mirrors. As root, urpmi.removemedia
>> -a and then launch mcc, go to Manage Software, Sources, and add new
>> sources.
>
> Thanks, Jim. The problem is that I don't have broadband.
> (A few weeks ago it took 7 hours on a dial-up connection to set up
> my urpmi system, so I'm disappointed it can't find gramps.)
>
> When you say "urpmi.removemedia -a .....Add new sources", how big an
> operation is that?
> (urpmi is still new-fangled for me since moving to Mandriva
> (2007.0)
> earlier this year, so the significance of those op's eludes me.)
>
> (Actually, my MCC's "Select from where software pacakes are d/l..."
> leads on to 'Media Manager', which doesn't show "Add new sources"
> option.sp can't see what you mean by "Add new sources"...)

The button should be labelled 'Add...'; it is one of several arranged on
the right-hand side of that window.

In that 'Media Manager' window, you should see a list of all the sources
currently installed and 'enabled'. Click on the one called 'Contrib' and
then click on the 'Edit' button, and look at the contents of the URL box.
That should be an ftp or http address, if you have succesfully set up your
on-line 'urpmi sources'. That is the place where you can point a web
browser to download individual files if you don't want to let the
automated software do it for you. I don't know why your Contrib
repository doesn't have the RPM for gramps, if it is a valid mirror for
Mandriva 2007.0.
> Guess the simplest thing to do would be to download the RPM separately
> from somewhere, if I could only figure out how to navigate Firefox to
> it.

That is certainly one way to do it, but if your mirrors are set up
properly then there should be no need to do that if the package you want
is included in the 'Contrib' repository (which a few people have posted
here it is).

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:42:11 +0100, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:22:06 +0100, Whiskers wrote:
>
>> MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/contrib/release/
>> gramps-2.0.11-3mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
>
> What should the front end of that be to get Firefox to fetch the RPM?
>
> (Tried it with "ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu.. "

If you have your mirror set correctly it would pull
gramps-2.0.11-3mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm 5493 KB 04/11/2007 08:57:00 PM

Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

On 2007-07-02, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:22:06 +0100, Whiskers wrote:
>
>> MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/contrib/release/
>> gramps-2.0.11-3mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
>
> What should the front end of that be to get Firefox to fetch the RPM?
>
> (Tried it with "ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu.. "
> but failed: "550 Failed to change directory"

Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

I recommend you get into the Global options in the mirror management
screen and set /wget/ instead of /curl/.

Changing mirrors is easy just delete it.
You can pick another mirror from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
once you have hit step 3 from easyurpmi, click up a terminal

su - root

and cut from browser and paste in root terminal.
After it gets the new *hdlist.cx files, you just do a
urpmi --wget gramps --auto

exit

Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

Maurice Batey wrote:
> However, when I tried to install it, it appears the mirror I have set
> up in
> urpmi for 'contrib' (anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk) is missing files, and
> the installation failed:
>
> "retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or 0
> ....
> Installation failed; some files are missing. You may want to update
> your
> urpmi database."

Whois agrees with them ...
Domain Name: PSU.EDU
Registrant:
Pennsylvania State University

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:38:56 +0000, Jim Beard wrote:
>
>> Looks like you need to update your mirrors. As root, urpmi.removemedia
>> -a and then launch mcc, go to Manage Software, Sources, and add new
>> sources.
>
> Thanks, Jim. The problem is that I don't have broadband.
> (A few weeks ago it took 7 hours on a dial-up connection to set up
> my urpmi system, so I'm disappointed it can't find gramps.)
>
> When you say "urpmi.removemedia -a .....Add new sources", how big an
> operation is that?
> (urpmi is still new-fangled for me since moving to Mandriva
> (2007.0)
> earlier this year, so the significance of those op's eludes me.)
>
> (Actually, my MCC's "Select from where software pacakes are d/l..."
> leads on to 'Media Manager', which doesn't show "Add new sources"
> option.sp can't see what you mean by "Add new sources"...)
>
> Guess the simplest thing to do would be to download the RPM separately
> from somewhere, if I could only figure out how to navigate Firefox to
> it.

urpmi.removemedia -a requires a fraction of a second after you hit the key.

Assuming 2007.0 is similar to 2007.1, in MCC, Software Management --> Select
from where software packages are downloaded when updating the system --> Add...
(button on the right side). You then get a pop-up box offering two sets of
mirrors. Select one, and after going through the choice of mirror and the
associated update with that one select the other and go through the routine
again. I think there are a couple of 600KB files, maybe more or maybe bigger,
so you are talking 10 minutes or so minimum, and maybe 30 minutes or an hour.
You will have to enable each, which may repeat the download of the list of
files available for each.

To minimize time on line, after removing your sources, use your browser to go
to easyurpmi.zarb.org and select only the mirrors you need. Main updates and
contrib are mandatory, and you really should have the plf-free and plf-nonfree
for commercial/proprietary-in-some-countries packages, but to get gramps you
could add contrib only. Do the others when you have more time.

Or, get and use GeneWeb, as I do. I am not familiar with gramps, but Geneweb
does a fine job for me and does an excellent (better than any other, including
gramps, according to what I have read) creation of a gedcom file for backup
purposes or to provide to others. Even GeneWeb is not 100-percent compliant
with the specification for creating a gedcom, but it is very very close.

Cheers!

jim b.

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Re: Genealogy program for Mandriva?

Thanks, Robert, but as you may see elsewhere I eventually managed to
download the RPM. (Although it won't install because a set of python
files it needs to fetch can't be found (because the mirror site I had
set up is no longer a mirror site...)